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Research by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) suggests that traffic apps might work for an individual, but could make congestion worse overall. “This problem has been vastly overlooked,” said Alexandre Bayen of the Lab’s Energy Technologies Area in The Atlantic. “It is just the beginning of something that is going be much worse.” More>

Susan Marqusee received the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science that profoundly influence the understanding of biology. Marqusee is one of the world’s top experimental scientists in the field of protein folding, and her work has produced the most detailed view of the protein energy landscape. More>

Lab physicist George Smoot, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, said Hawking’s contributions were original and far-reaching, reframing ideas about the origins of the universe and the nature of time and space. Raphael Bousso, a Lab physicist and former student of Hawking, was quoted in a New York Times obituary on the March 14 passing of the scientist at age 76.